Photo Scavenger Hunt - August

Once again it's time to join in with the Photo Scavenger Hunt kindly organised by greenthumb at Made with Love  just click on the link  to find other participants.

Walk

 Visitors walk over the new Chinese Bridge at Croome Park in Worcestershire.

Horizontal

Horizontal stripes on a Cornish Ware jar at Sharpe's Pottery Museum, Swadlincote, Derbyshire

Square

Square tiles on the floor of a room in The Commandery, Worcester.  Called the Commandery as it was from here that Charles II established his headquarters before the Battle of Worcester in 1651.

Diversity

 As I looked at this photo I was struck by the diversity of wildlife in and around the lake which is at Witley Court, near Worcester.  Trees, shrubs, plants, flowers, birds, dragonflies, bees, wasps, butterflies and other insects and also all the wildlife living down in the water of the lake too.

Rough

The rough texture of the Tufa stone contrasts with the smoother stone of the statue.  Photo taken at Croome Park, Worcestershire.

Bow

Bows on an 18th century style dress at Quarry Bank Mill, Styal, Cheshire

Joy

The Perseus and Andromeda fountain at Witley Court near Worcester caused much joy to visitors as it was activated at 11.a.m. and reached its full force and height in a few minutes.  Whitley Court is a ruin, after a disastrous fire which started on 7th September 1937.

Forgotten

I spotted the little umbrella hanging on a fence in the small show gardens at Trentham Estate when we were walking around.  I wonder if a child had left it there whilst stopping to do something else and forgotten it or if a passer by had found it and put it there so it would be seen.  Either way it seems to match the fence in colour doesn't it?

Crowd

As I steer clear of crowds as much as possible I was wondering how on earth I could interpret this particular topic.  We have lots of sparrows in the hedges and bushes that surround our garden and the other day there was quite a lot of them.  Apparently the collective noun term for Sparrows can be one of three words a host, a quarrel or a ubiquity.  They are certainly ubiquitous in our garden but for the purposes of the scavenger hunt they are a crowd of Sparrows.

Colourless

This plant's seed head was very dry and a pale cream colour against the background of bright summer greens, I enhanced this paleness by making the photo black and white.

Friendly

 This little friendly robin came to sit near our table outside the Lakeside cafe at Trentham Gardens.  I think he or she was looking for crumbs but we only had coffee.  He stayed quite a while watching us before deciding we didn't have any food to offer him.

Whatever you want 

 A collage of photos I took of the painted room in The Commandery in Worcester.  The paintings date from c1475 when the building was a hospital dedicated to St Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester.  It is thought that this room was the infirmary and the paintings were there to comfort the sick.

As you can see from some of the photos we've been away for a few days in Worcestershire.  I will write a post or two about the places we've visited over the next week or two.  I'll hopefully be catching up with all your posts in the next day or two too.